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Original Out of Orbit

xailenrath

on Feb. 22, 2019

Out of Orbit has been one of my longest running, most redesigned and restarted projects to date… and that's saying something.

I began this in 1997 or '98.
I'm a big fan of goony alien misfits on earth type fiction.
Out of Orbit was my loveletter to shows like Alf, Out of This World, The Powers of Matthew Starr, They Came from Outer Space, Third Rock from the Sun, and ESPECIALLY Mork & Mindy.

Readers Digest version of the ORIGINAL synopsis… which, of course, got changed a bit over time:

Balvinannek-Emmilthraxis and Balvinannek-Kalviknarozka are alien beings from a planet called Xarva, who crashed to earth when their Alpha-Centauri tourbus crashed into a comet, and their escape pod got sucked into a wormhole.
They landed on Earth, and were found and "adopted" by Val Baker, an earthgirl, and her best friend, Maggie Mason. (somewhat of a hoochie, but good-hearted…. sorta.)
They 'phone home' and are informed by their matrifactor (mom), that their ride won't be coming for almost 3 solar cycles. (roughly 2 to 6 Earth Years.)
So, in order not to be terminally bored, they decide to "experience Earth".
Val and Maggie decide to help them 'fit in'. (Yeah, like THAT'll happen.)
They have help from their friends, Charlie and Archie, and Val's aunt Olive, a doctor, who despite her former shall-we-say OVERLY capitalistic ways, is trying to help the girls keep "Roz and Thraxie" safe, while fighting the urge to turn them over to the media and military for capital gain.

Val with a LOT of help convinced her parents and her whole neighborhood that Roz and Thraxie are foreign exchange students, and in order to keep them close, enrolled them in High School with her.
The extraterrestrial duo find Earth a fascinating place. Almost like a vacation, and are keeping a journal of their experiences here to take back to their homeworld.

This was the very first picture of Roz & Thraxie.
Their human forms, and their alien Xarvan forms would go through many changes through out the years.